[Art Gallery Tour 19] Walk around Eddie Martinez’s exhibition @Perrotin Shanghai

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Wala Art is taking you to a tour at Perrotin Shanghai China
Eddie Martinez’s works are delightful to the visually versed. Rooted in the painting tradition, informed by art historical precedents, and expressed with a contemporary sensibility, Martinez has focused on rudimentary subjects in painting, namely, portraits, landscapes, and still lifes, since launching his artistic career in 2005. Over the years, while the artist continues to work on these subjects, his cartoon-like figuration gained speed in execution, his subjects transformed with gestural marks, and his painted surface grew more tactile and audacious in color. Such an evolution may, in part, be indebted to his diaristic drawing habit that shapes his compositional intelligence and partly being a keen observer of an ever-changing world around him.
EDDIE MARTINEZ
Born in 1977 on Groton Naval Base, Groton, Connecticut, USA.Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Eddie Martinez is a self-taught artist who is well known for his vibrant colours, dynamic brushstrokes, and impeccable intuition. Alternating spontaneously between traditional and unconventional modes of painting, energy exudes from the brisk markings he makes with acrylic, oil, spray paint, Sharpies, and even baby wipes.
Martinez’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at museums and institutions including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, the Drawing Center, New York, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Michigan, and the Davis Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts. His works are included in public collections such as the Saatchi Collection and Hiscox Collection, London; Colección Jumex, Mexico City; the Marciano Collection, Los Angeles; the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, Morgan Library & Museum, New York; and the Davis Museum, Wellesley.